A 42-YEAR-OLD CHILDHOOD OBESITY THEORY MAY BE WRONG

New research challenges the decades-old idea that children experience an “adiposity rebound” when their BMI begins rising around age 6. Although BMI returns to earlier levels, a more reliable measure showed that body fat does not rebound at all.

Health & Medicine News -- Scienc reports that new research challenges the decades-old idea that children experience an “adiposity rebound” when their BMI begins rising around age 6.

The report adds: Although BMI returns to earlier levels, a more reliable measure showed that body fat does not rebound at all.

The increase appears to come from growing muscle and lean tissue as children prepare for later growth.

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